"not braking going down small hills,"

Breaking while going UPhill is just as bad.

"After a decade behind the wheel, the brain is no longer consciously thinking everything through in great detail. "

Indeed, and for some reason, signalling fell through the brain's cracks.

Betting is now "prediction market"
Getting fired now called "Evaporating Financial Security" or "Involuntary separation"
Killing a product is now "Sunsetting a product"
"Non-performing loan" = a loan nobody's paying back
Bombing people is now called "kinetic action" ...

We live in the century of the euphemism.

These people need to be sent 'to a farm upstate'.

The UK gives out visas for professions that cannot be fulfilled with locals.

Like dog-walkers, ballerina, disk-jockeys, party-clowns.....

Legitimate courses at real universities

"Simpsons and Philosophy" (UC Berkeley), using the show to teach philosophical concepts

"Arguing with Judge Judy: Popular 'Logic' on TV Judge Shows" (UC Berkeley), explicitly framed as not a law course but an exercise in spotting logical fallacies used by litigants on courtroom TV

"Sociology of Fame and Lady Gaga" (University of South Carolina), whose syllabus pointedly warns students it's "not a course in Lady Gaga but in sociology," with no music or video allowed in class, which is either very disciplined or very funny depending on your mood

"Zombies in Popular Media" (Columbia College Chicago), using zombie films and comics to dig into social issues

"Politicizing Beyoncé" (Rutgers), examining US class, race, gender, and sexual politics through her career, and a similar course exists at Texas Christian University

"How to Watch Television" (Montclair State), teaching critical analysis of TV's cultural role, apparently to the disappointment of students who thought it meant watching Friends all semester

"The Science of Harry Potter" (Frostburg State University), physics questions with a Hogwarts framing

"Maple Syrup: The Real Thing" (a real elective exploring the history and mechanics of syrup production)

The science of decomposition/waste at Santa Clara University, with field trips to landfills and sewage plants

"Learning From YouTube" (Pitzer College), where students watch and upload YouTube videos as coursework, started because the professor found existing platform content underwhelming

"The Amazing World of Bubbles" (Caltech) and "Street-Fighting Mathematics" (MIT), both genuinely offered

Claude didn't even want to discuss details about black powder production, not quite new tech, while Gemini would have allowed me to begin production immediately and spilled EVERYTHING.

Human intelligence has been doing the same for decades.

So people are afraid that the "Freedom to put lead paint in the trash" will disappear?

There are cameras all over the place, not only Teslas driving by.

Get over it.

He might even become a real boy.

So again, NOT stuff that matters.

We can't all get rich by cutting each other's hair.
Only very few.

When they have become your doctors, you actually might.

...then they have big pockets.

"The Defense Department burned through some 20 billion tokens per day during the 38-day Operation Epic Fury in Iran, "

How many thousands asking "When should I place my Polymarket bet, is it NOW?"

"What I don't understand is why they need Israeli tech for this"

  Cognyte was spun out of Verint, itself descended from Comverse Infosys, part of a lineage of Israeli SIGINT companies (alongside NSO Group, Rayzone, Paragon, and others) heavily staffed by veterans of Unit 8200, the IDF's signals-intelligence corps, which has functioned for decades as an unusually productive pipeline of people who did this exact kind of interception and analytics work operationally before going commercial. That gives these firms a real depth of institutional know-how in making multi-generation interception reliable in messy real-world RF environments, and especially in the downstream analytics layer, Cognyte also sells behavioral-pattern-flagging platforms that sit on top of raw interception data, which is a harder, less commoditised capability than the radio hardware itself.